jlbrownos01
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My computer has an Athalon XP 2100+ processor, 512 MB PC2100 DDR RAM, a SOYO Dragon KT400 Platinum motherboard, an Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti4200 w/128 MB DDR texture memory, a 7200RPM 8MB cache ATA133 120GB Western Digital HD as master, and a 7200/2MB/ATA133/120GB Maxtor as slave. I run WinXP Professional. A great deal of the time, it runs excrutiatingly slowly, and I need some help trying to figure out what might be going on.
Occasionally everything works fine and the computer runs fairly well, but most of the time everything I try to do is extremely sluggish. It can often take as much as 2 seconds just to pull up a sub-folder in the start menu, and even when I am not using the computer, the framerate on the screensaver (the little 3d flowerbox one that comes with windows) is around 1-2 fps.
When I open the task manager, the processor usage is around 5-15% and free physical memory is over 300MB. I haven't found anything running under the processes tab that shouldn't be. But when I try to do anything at all, the corresponding application shoots up to much higher usage than would normally be expected. For example playing an MP3 in Winamp can take up over 70%, and if I try to scroll through a web page, Iexplore goes up to over 60%. Even opening parts of the start menu can cause explorer to go up over 60%.
I have scanned my computer for viruses with Mcafee, Norton, and PC-cillan, and they found a couple of viruses in some applications, but after they were removed, the problem still existed. I have scanned my computer with a couple of different spy/adware detection programs, but nothing was found, and I am generally very selective about what is installed.
Restarting has no effect on the problem at all. I simply don't know what else to do at this point. I could really use some advice if anyone knows what might be occuring, and what I can do to fix it. I would be happy to post more information if there is anything else that could help with diagnosing the problem. Thanks in advance.
Occasionally everything works fine and the computer runs fairly well, but most of the time everything I try to do is extremely sluggish. It can often take as much as 2 seconds just to pull up a sub-folder in the start menu, and even when I am not using the computer, the framerate on the screensaver (the little 3d flowerbox one that comes with windows) is around 1-2 fps.
When I open the task manager, the processor usage is around 5-15% and free physical memory is over 300MB. I haven't found anything running under the processes tab that shouldn't be. But when I try to do anything at all, the corresponding application shoots up to much higher usage than would normally be expected. For example playing an MP3 in Winamp can take up over 70%, and if I try to scroll through a web page, Iexplore goes up to over 60%. Even opening parts of the start menu can cause explorer to go up over 60%.
I have scanned my computer for viruses with Mcafee, Norton, and PC-cillan, and they found a couple of viruses in some applications, but after they were removed, the problem still existed. I have scanned my computer with a couple of different spy/adware detection programs, but nothing was found, and I am generally very selective about what is installed.
Restarting has no effect on the problem at all. I simply don't know what else to do at this point. I could really use some advice if anyone knows what might be occuring, and what I can do to fix it. I would be happy to post more information if there is anything else that could help with diagnosing the problem. Thanks in advance.